The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-12-10
NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mrs. Celia Thaxter, the artist and
poet, has become a convert TO esoteric
Buddhism.
The pedestal of Samuel Morley's
statue at Bristol, bears the Sc words. taken
from one OF his speeches.: ct believe that
the power of England is to be reckoued.
not by her wealth or armies, but by the
purity and virtue OF the great mass of
her population"
Mr.. d. l.. Moody has arranged to
have Y1ng Lee, proprietor of Chinese
laundry at Hartford, Conn, enter his
Mount Hermon school at Northfield.
Mass, to prepare himselffor the ministry.
He is remarkably bright Chinaman, far
in advance of the great mass of his race.
The funeral of Nine. Jenny Lind
doldschmidt was a quiet one, but re-
markable for the social or professional
distinction of the attendance; and those
sending messages of coincidence ranked
from the Queen to the shopkeeper. Her
estate is large one, excellently invested.
-Announcement is made of the
death at Dieppe of Henry Levioke. He
was the first European who ever made
his home at Suez, and he lived there for
ty-one years. He was the first British
Consul there and the pioneer of the mail
route through Egypt His wife and
twenty two Of his children survive him.
To an admiring correspondent at
New London, John Greenleaf Whittier
recently wrote that Maud Muller was
not composed as a story of his own life
as has sometimes been intimated. But
Maud" had a real prototype in coun-
try girl of whom he obtained drink
while riding by, and who modestly raked
the hay up about her bare ankles while
he was drinking the water.
1t Is said that few years ago the
wife of General Crook while travelling in
Arizona threw away from the car window
the remains of some watercress which she
had brought from a distant part Of the
country. The bits of herb fell into a
brook and took root, and now watercress
is growing luxuriantly all through that
part OF the Territory, where it was en-
tirely unknown before.
A good story is told Of our friend.
DIR. Cushman. He went to barber dur
ing the recent heated term, and said,
doubtless with that welI-remembered
twinkle of the eye, "Now, want you to
cut my hair as short as you would like
sermon" On rising from his chair, and
ruefully surveying his bald and shining
head, he was constrain ed to observe that
the barber wanted no sermon at ALL
Chicago Living Church.
1t Is now announced that Prince
William of Germany is probably fully as
near deaths door as his father, the
Grown Prince, or his grandfather the
Emperor. The report is that he is sff1ict-
ed by continuous series of abcesses at
the base of the brain and that his ears
are in an almost perpetual state of irrita-
ton. His great uncle, the late King of
Prussia, was similarly affected and be-
came insane in consequence, some years
previous to his death. The Grown Princes
trouble is hereditary also.
DR.. Charles 8. Robinson has re-
signed the passionate of the Madison ave-
nue. Presbyterian church, New York city,
which he has been serving seventeen
years. Pressure of literary work, which
he cannot well give up at present, has
led to his retirement from the pastoral
office. 1t is said that DR.. Robinson con.
tributed from his own means $72, 1000 to-
ward the erection of the church which he
leaves, and that recently he gave $4,000
toward the erection OF chapel.
Rev. DR.. J. 81. Vincent, was one of
the foremost in organizing the Chautau-
qua Society, and is now Chancellor of the
Chautauqua University. DIR. Vincent is
usually greeted in Chautauqua circles
with Chautauqua salute, which consists
of general waving of handkerchiefs by
the audience. This salute originated on
an occasion when deaf speaker at Chau-
tauqua was thus made to understand the
appreciation of his audience, his deafness
declaring him from hearing the usual
applause.
-Mrs. Alexander Carlyle, niece of
the late Thomas Carlyle, has since June
of the present year sent down to the birth
place OF her illustrious uncle at Eccle-
fechan several interesting relics from the
house in Cheyne row. On the wall of the
apartment in which Carlyle was born
hangs the old Dutch clock from the Ohel
sea kitchen; and in the room there are
also chair from the drawing room, a
reading-table, a reading lamp and shade,
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